Cyber Espionage

Cyber espionage has been emerging as one of the major threats to organizations, individuals, and national security.The use of digital tools to obtain unauthorized access to classified information, typically for economic, military, or political purposes, is known as cyber espionage.Cyber espionage happens in the digital realm, which makes it easier to conduct from distant locations and more challenging to detect.

Spyware Spying Journalists

Human rights and media rights organisations have voiced outrage over reports that 180 journalists throughout the world were subjected to military-grade Israeli spyware spying. Cindy Saine, VOA’s Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, reports on a growing controversy that has included some world leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron also targeted

China Denies Microsoft Email Platform Hacking

Beijing has refuted claims that it was behind a significant hack against Microsoft Exchange, a widely used email network. NATO, the European Union, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand joined the US in accusing Chinese state-sponsored entities of “malicious cyber activities” earlier this week

Cybercrime and Mobile Payment in Cameroon

The development of electronic wallet by mobile operating companies in Cameroon has change the dynamics of cash transfer, the payment of bills, educational fee, purchase of furniture, sponsor of programs by NGOs, but also negative impact, as cybercriminals use to perpetrate crimes, mitigating financial transaction through purchase of bitcoins. Cryptocurrency term which heard in every economic milieu, have become a tool use by some unscrupulous people engage digital marketing and cyber criminality to extort or victimize communities. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 as an open source software, which started operating in 2009 under the name Satochi Nakoamoto with the following particularities; digital money package which is privately own and exonerate individuals from bank fees, a virtual currency that uses per-to peer technology to facilitate instant payment, bitcoin is purchase through mobile money with the use of internet with cash deposit

What Are The Types Of Fraud...

By Debdutta Ghosh Some time at the end of June, Delhi resident Puneet Agarwal, the nephew of Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel put up a plea for plasma for treatment of Covid-19 for a close relative on his social media page.   Blood plasma from an individual who has recovered from Covid-19 contains vital antibodies …

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Increase In Cyber Attacks On Indian...

This was not an isolated incident in the Western state of India as revealed by the cyber crime unit of the state. In fact reports have now emerged that a large number of people have been subjected to online extortion threats from hackers such as this one. The hackers reportedly claimed that they had complete access to the personal data of the targets and demand money, in many cases in bitcoins in exchange of not making public the details of websites that had been accessed by the target in recent times

Chinese State Backed Hackers Hyperactive Against...

Cyfirma researchers have found out that the most recent spike in cyber attacks on Indian entities were launched from bases in the Chinese capital of Beijing as well as form other cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chengdu